Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So I'm really entranced by this idea I saw on this game design blog - books that you know in your bones are really about your thing, even though on the surface they claim to be about another thing --
I am building a list of the “secret” books on game ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The amazing David Silver asked me to help spread the word about The September Project as September draws closer and closer. And I couldn't think of a better place to talk about it than here - because this project connects so closely to the things we've been talking and ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The first thing I did when I decided to raise chickens was put a hold on every book in the library with chicken or poultry in the subject heading. By far, the most informative and entertaining one I read is John Festus Adams' Backyard poultry raising: the chicken-growing, egg-laying, feather-plucking, ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
As is my wont, I just happened to read two things that I think are talking about the same thing and it's a thing that I think is kind of important, so I'm going to talk about that thing a little bit more. I'm re-reading A Pedagogy for Liberation right ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
At the 2008 Libraries in the Digital Age conference I attended a month ago, Jeffrey Pomerantz presented results of a study of library and information science curriculum that showed that David Weinberger's 2007 book Everything is Miscellaneous was one of the most popular books assigned in courses on digital libraries ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
at the risk of becoming ⌘-f's arts and entertainment writer, i'm going to talk a bit more about music today. first, a story:
i have a friend who is a well-known musician, Kristin Hersh. i was riding in her minivan with her, her husband Billy, and two of her ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
So this has been bothering me for a while and I haven't been sure how to talk about it. It's the phrase "the best source." As in, "Google's great for some things but librarians can really teach you how to find the best source on your topic."
So I ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
as usual, i have copyright and culture on the brain. between the UMUC CIP symposium at the end of May and ALA in Anaheim last week, i've got a lot of thoughts rattling around in here. this ALA conference seemed unusually full of copyright-related material. In addition to the usual ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The Oregon State Library subsidizes the cost of databases through NewsBank and EBSCO so that all Oregon libraries can provide their patrons access to online resources. It's an incredible program.
The word is out that NewsBank recently tripled the price for OSL's license to the Portland Oregonian, Oregon's newspaper of ...
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